Includes bibliographical references (p. [2295]-317) and index
Violent knights, holy knights -- Model knight/authors as guides -- The religious context for chivalric ideology -- Independence in knightly piety -- Knightly ideology developed and disseminated -- The hero and the suffering servant -- Knighthood and the new lay theology : ordines and labor -- Knighthood and the new lay theology : confession and penance -- Writing the death certificate for chivalric ideology